J i m Wrote:
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> There's the usual rather inevitable lot of
> negativity about these cars on the social
> networks. I'm not sure what people were expecting
> to be honest.. it's been clear for ages the
> changes were a slightly wider car with mainly
> asthestic positioning changes to the wings. Oh and
> of course wider tyres. We've had reasonably good
> graphical representations for ages and yet it
> still seems that people envisaged a complete
> revolution in the laws of physics and
> aerodynamics.
>
> Mind you.. It's the same every year.. that and the
> usual plonker with a cracked copy of Photoshop and
> a Twitter account who's decided that they're the
> expert on livery.
>
> Personally I think the Williams, McLaren and
> Renault are nice looking. The Ferrari is the same
> 'meh' it's been ever since 1996. I'm not too keen
> on the Sauber and the Force India seems to have
> merged of all the annoyingly ugly appendages which
> had so upset everyone for the past decade. The
> Mercedes is not the prettiest but it does appear
> to the most 'elvolved' which is not that
> surprising given that they still have 99% of all
> the big named designers.
>
> There's also the usual buzzwords flying around
> 'radical' 'aggressive' 'innovative'... these
> people need be slapped for these innovative
> features they point out always have visual
> precedents from the cars dating back as far as the
> 70s which I'm sure anyone with the knowledge of
> how to use google and share a picture on the
> Internet is only too pleased and eager to prove.
I really disagree about the Ferraris being 'meh' since 1996!
The 1997 and 98 cars are absolute stunners, with such beautiful, sleek lines. (Disregarding the brief use of tower wings)
The A1GP rear wings of this year's cars, coupled with the horrible noses, front wings with way too many planes, all that carp on the sidepods, dorsal fins, and the floors that now protrude so much that the cars look like they've been left on a minichamps stand, combine to make this years offerings the worst I can ever remember. They developed too many aero pieces in 2008, the regs did the right thing in reducing them for 09, but now it's even worse than 08 levels..
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